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Daryl Bem's 'Feeling the Future'

A Cornell social psychologist published nine experiments claiming evidence of precognition in a top psychology journal.

2011 CE · 42.45, -76.48 · status: disputed

The account

Bem's 2011 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology used standard methods of the time and found small effects. It shocked the field.

The sceptical view

Replications failed, and the paper became a catalyst for psychology's 'replication crisis', exposing how flexible analysis can produce false positives.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Daryl Bem
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